Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller throws a pass during the fourth quarter of Saturday's Big Ten game against Michigan.

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Jon Spencer
CentralOhio.com

If my Heisman Trophy ballot is as spot-on as my selections for the major player awards on the All-Big Ten team, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o will become the first defensive player to win college football's stiff arm trophy since Michigan's Charles Woodson in 1997 and the first - ever - to play exclusively on that side of the ball.

Te'o, the physical if not spiritual leader on Notre Dame's 12-0 team, doesn't need the luck of the Irish to walk off with the Heisman. All he needs is the positive karma wafting off my All-Big Ten ballot. ...